Clinton campaign calls on FBI director to provide more details of new email review

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton’s campaign is calling on FBI Director James Comey to provide a fuller explanation of new steps the agency is taking in connection to its review of the candidate’s use of a private email server.

Chairman John Podesta, in the campaign’s first public statement on the matter, called it “extraordinary” that Comey would not be more forthcoming in his explanation of circumstances behind the FBI’s decision, given that the presidential election is just 11 days away.

“Comey should immediately provide the American public more information than is contained in the letter he sent to eight Republican committee chairmen,” he said.

Podesta took issue with the characterization by Republicans that the agency was “reopening” its investigation, and noted that Comey’s own statement says the emails it is reviewing may not be significant.

The agency discovered new communications in devices seized from close Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her estranged husband, Anthony Weiner, a former New York congressman, according to a law enforcement official.

Podesta also pointed to Comey’s previous public statement explaining his decision not to recommend charges against the Democratic presidential hopeful. Comey said that no reasonable prosecutor would move forward with such a case and added that it was not even a close call.

“The director owes it to the American people to immediately provide the full details of what he is now examining. We are confident this will not produce any conclusions different from the one the FBI reached in July,” he said.

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Pat

RELEASE THE EMAILS!!

midcoastg8tor

Bonnie and Clyde Clinton will now play the victim card.

midcoastg8tor

wikileaks will oblige next week. All emails involving HRC, Podesta and Obama have been saved for desert.

Pinetree North

Assange recently said his next release will “put her in jail.” Can’t wait.

funfundvierzig

So why doesn’t the hubris-heavy Hillary simply send out her pal Huma and her child-stalking husband to tell the American people what’s really in those e-mails?

…funfun..

Pinetree North

Weiner must be looking for the drone attack every time he leaves a building.

Thistle

If Hillary looses, expect to see something similar to Michael Corleone’s “settling all family business” à la The Godfather.

Pinetree North

I wonder if Hill and Huma will end up in Qatar, since that’s where a big Clinton money stash is rumored to be hiding. They can trade muumuus and drown their sorrows with Margaritas.

funfundvierzig

What is really fascinating:

Director Comey did not act in isolation without his boss signing off, or nodding approval, namely Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Lynch’s über boss, the man in the Oval Office himself!

And way-out leftists are outraged that the F.B.I. Director Comey would dare follow the law and investigate when new evidence was adduced.

…funfun..

Thistle

It’s easy for Clinton and her strap hangers to demand the FBI release all the emails. They know that as long as there is some possibility of the presence of classified information, those emails will not see the light of day until they have been scrubbed.

All this faux anguish is theater.

Pinetree North

Articles on “The Hill” quote her angry aides as saying the campaign is “paralyzed” after the new email bombshell, and they have had it.